Do you Git It?

What's it all about?

Git is an open source revision control management system, a very efficient tool for managing projects of all sizes. I won't go into detail, so for all the ins and outs, please visit the official site here for everything you need to know: git-scm.com.

Where to store your repositories

There are many places to keep track and hold your repositories, here are two possibilities;

GitHub is the perfect app to assist with project collaboration. It allows you to commit changes, send pull requests and manage all your public and private git repositories.

Bitbucket, provided by Atlassian, offers you an unlimited private repositories, with up to 5 users.

Let's make a start

For a basic list of commands.

git help

When you first setup Git, you'll need to set your username and email address to ensure changes (commits) are recorded properly.